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I ran into this issue just now setting up X on my ancient netbook that |
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I've just re-installed on. It's been an ongoing issue of mine that I've |
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solved with an ugly hack. I'd like to know "the right way" of doing it. |
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I have a ~/.xinitrc file like so... |
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#!/bin/bash |
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[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources /usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry 50x9+0+0 -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 & |
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/usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry +0+0 -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 & |
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exec /usr/bin/icewm > ~/.icewm.log 2>&1 |
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Some time ago, somebody decided to deprecate iso8859-1 fonts. And |
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when I run startx, the text console comes up with |
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======================================================================== |
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/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font 'lucidasanstypewriter' |
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/usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font 'lucidasanstypewriter' |
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Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasanstypewriter" to type FontStruct |
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Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font |
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Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font |
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Error: Aborting: no font found |
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Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasanstypewriter" to type FontStruct |
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Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font |
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Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font |
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Error: Aborting: no font found |
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======================================================================== |
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xterms come up with some dinky little font. It's bad enough on a 24 |
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in 1920x1080 monitor. On an 11" 1366x768 netbook, it's unreadable. |
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When I do a control-right-click on an xterm to manipulate fonts, the |
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xterm crashes. |
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One of the nice things about having multiple machines, is that I still |
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had another machine with the old fonts. For a few years, I've preserved |
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a copy of /usr/share/fonts from that machine as fonts_do_not_delete. So |
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each time fonts are "updated" on my machines, I rename /usr/share/fonts |
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to /usr/share/fonts.borken and copy the fonts_do_not_delete directory as |
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/usr/share/fonts. |
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OK, so whats supposed to be "the right way" to get working xterms with |
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lucidasanstypewriter-12? |
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-- |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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